Posted by Doug Caverly

The fact that Sony will stop selling floppy disks in Japan has generated a lot of headlines recently, and it’s easy to realize after seeing them that storage solutions have become quite cheap.  They’ve become more complicated, too, however, and so a guide titled “Hot To Get The Most Out Of Your NAS” may prove useful.

Network-attached storage devices can often perform all sorts of nifty functions, and in an article for Gizmodo, John Mahoney started by writing about remote access.  His key point: “The easiest way to access your NAS from outside of your home network is to set up an FTP server.”

Next, Mahoney addressed the idea of using any device in conjunction with Apple’s Time Machine utility, which is important since Apple’s Time Capsule is all it’s really supposed to work with.  And on a related note, he later talked about Windows and Mac compatibility, as well.

What’s more, Mahoney covered the concept of RAID (“go RAID 1 or don’t worry about it”), and if you have any videos that someone would like to watch on a regular television, he even wrote about NAS devices as they apply to console video streaming.

Since network-attached storage still isn’t free – and since quite a lot can go wrong if data doesn’t travel and/or get stored as intended – it’s probably worth your while to follow these tips and get the most out of your NAS devices.

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